Exclusive | Americas most infamous jewel thief slams Louvre robbers as idiots and reveals shocking way they could have smuggled gems out of Paris

Loot in the booty?The thieves who fleeced $102 million worth of jewels from the Louvre Museum may have hidden the precious pieces up their posteriors in a bid to smuggle them out of France.That eye-popping hypothesis was made by America’s most infamous jewelry thief, Larry Lawton, who spoke with The Post about the headline-grabbing heist.“I hope they had enough money to literally lie low and get out of the country,” Lawton, 64, said of the four thieves who pulled off the audacious — if somewhat haphazard — Paris robbery over the weekend.Lawton looted 25 jewelry stores across America’s East Coast during the 1980s and ’90s, netting a total haul estimated at $18 million.

He often zip-tied terrified store owners and customers during the daytime raids.With his own experience as a reference, Lawton revealed that if the Louvre bandits — whom he described as “amateurs” and “idiots” — escaped on an airplane, they wouldn’t have put the jewels in their hand luggage.“Believe it or not, depending on the size, you could take some of that jewelry apart and literally ‘suitcase’ it,” Lawton said, explaining that the normally conventional term involves “inserting something in your rectum.”“You have seven extra inches in your anus, and the reason I know this is [because] I’ve actually had a knife up my a–,” the ex-con shockingly confessed, recalling his past wild life and crimes.“You put a knife in half of a [travel] toothbrush holder,” he graphically continued, “and put masking tape on the other end.”Once one of the country’s most wanted men, Lawton constantly evaded capture thanks to immaculate planning and precision.However, the native New Yorker says the Louvre robbers don’t possess the same prowess; it’s been reported that the four thieves made major mistakes during the heist.One of the men allegedly left behind a glove, while another dropped Empress Eugenie’s imperial crown during the hasty getaway, damaging the h...